Are I-129F processed in order by the receipt number?

[Eliezer y Wendy 13]

I've been modifying the last few digits of my case and see how most cases are in a different stage. Most of them says: "On May 16, 2013, your Alien Registration Number was changed..." OR "On August 2, 2013, we mailed a notice requesting initial evidence..." Mine says "The I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) was transferred and is now being processed at a USCIS office..." So, are the RFE and the "Alien Registration Number was changed" a more advanced step in the process?

How come ALL cases around mine are on these steps but mine?? I checked about 10 receipt numbers before and after mine that starts with "EAC"

Thanks

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I've been modifying the last few digits of my case and see how most cases are in a different stage. Most of them says: "On May 16, 2013, your Alien Registration Number was changed..." OR "On August 2, 2013, we mailed a notice requesting initial evidence..." Mine says "The I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) was transferred and is now being processed at a USCIS office..." So, are the RFE and the "Alien Registration Number was changed" a more advanced step in the process?

How come ALL cases around mine are on these steps but mine?? I checked about 10 receipt numbers before and after mine that starts with "EAC"

Thanks

Hundreds of thousands of petitions are processed by hundreds of adjudicators. NO they are not done in order. saying they are is politically correct but impossible. Stop checking the timeline and prepare for your next step. Imagine you walk into a grocery store with 100,000 people and are given a number as you enter. There are 400 cashiers. Do you think if your number is 1234, that you will come out of the store right after 1233 and just before 1235?

A lot of disappointment is caused by unrealistic expectations

What I can tell you, since I have done this, is that when it is approved you will no tbe ready for the next step unless you stop looking at useless online updates and start getting together what you need.

Have you collected all your transcripts from school? Had them translated? Had them evaluated? The visa is nothing, prepare for LIFE ahead.

FWIW when I out our receipt number in it says "initial review" Alla has been a citizen for more than a year.

[Bugs 455]

In a very loose, general manner yes, but you will find many getting approvals ahead of others because many adjunctators are working on them and go at different speeds, not to mention go through multiple petitions at the same time (setting one aside temporarily to work on an easier case, etc). Other factors play in as well, such as expedites, RFEs, and congressional inquiries.

But you will, in a general sense, see the bulk of April petitions approved before May, May petitions approved before June, etc. But rarely do they go in exact order within a given month.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

No, they are processed in a very random order.

The ones with requests for evidence are slightly ahead of you, but not by much. Doesn't necessarily mean they will be approved before you.

The cases sit in a box until they are adjudicated. At that time they get an approval, a denial or an RFE. An RFE is not "slightly ahead of you" other than it was adjudicated before you, so YES it is ahead of you. That case would have been approved if there was no RFE.

This is not a multi step process. ONE person looks at your case ONE time and makes a decision. Unless there is something unusual requiring a supervisor to check it or a manual background check. The average adjudcator processes an I-129f in less than 20 minutes. The rest of the time it is waiting in a box.

"Touches" are usually when the BOX gets moved, It is scanned and all files in that box get an "update". You don't see the update but it is usually something iike "Box 8373647382272 is now on shelf a64784nb"

I am not guessing. see the pinned topic at the top of this forum

[Eliezer y Wendy 13]

Hundreds of thousands of petitions are processed by hundreds of adjudicators. NO they are not done in order. saying they are is politically correct but impossible. Stop checking the timeline and prepare for your next step. Imagine you walk into a grocery store with 100,000 people and are given a number as you enter. There are 400 cashiers. Do you think if your number is 1234, that you will come out of the store right after 1233 and just before 1235?

A lot of disappointment is caused by unrealistic expectations

What I can tell you, since I have done this, is that when it is approved you will no tbe ready for the next step unless you stop looking at useless online updates and start getting together what you need.

Have you collected all your transcripts from school? Had them translated? Had them evaluated? The visa is nothing, prepare for LIFE ahead.

FWIW when I out our receipt number in it says "initial review" Alla has been a citizen for more than a year.

Thanks. I was also doing math before I asked. It's just interesting how mine was right outside of a batch that have seen some step forward. ANd yes... they already have school transcript and many other suporting documents already translated. I'm now putting together 2-3 I-134 since I'm visiting her by the end of this month. I want to be prepared as much as I can in case the process goes through while I'm in Guatemla.

Thanks again.

Edited August 11, 2013 by Eliezer y Wendy

[Vic20r 14]

NO..They adjudicate randomly... I almost believe that it was drawn by lot when our petition was stuck at VSC for 17months before we heard an RFE, no less from USCIS

[TBoneTX 43,402]

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